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Insight is software is designed to monitor and integrate student student activity on the lab desktops and integrate that with the instructor’s lesson. The software is a non-invasive means of ensuring students are following with lectures and labs as instructed to do so, in addition to being capable of administering tests, collecting files, casting student votes, restricting application use, and limiting web access. Often, professors in the iSchool conduct hands-on laboratory exercise sessions, and Insight can help helps ensure that students are following with the exercise. Also, electronically administered exams take place in the laboratories, and professors can heavily restrict the internet access and browser capabilities, in addition to monitoring the screens of each student in one easy to view dashboard in real-time.
Insight links all of the workstations in the lab to an easy to view a dashboard display screen for the professor instructor to viewmonitor. Since the professor can simply view all of the workstations in the lab they can ensure students are paying attention to the lesson, and following academic integrity policies during exam periods.
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Insight is available only on the teaching stations in the basements basement labs of Hinds Hall. To launch the program select the icon from the quick launch bar in the bottom right of the primary screendesktop, as shown below. The Owl within a circle surrounded by the red square is the Faronics Insight IconLink.
Once the program is launched the primary screen, which displays all of the workstations in the lab, will be viewable to the instructor, as shown in the image below.
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Type the message you want to send to all of the students in the lab in the box and click “Send” “Send.”
Locking Screens:
At the primary screen click “Blank Screen” located on the top ribbon.
Note - A custom message can be created on the screen by clicking the arrow next to the icon and selecting “Configure Blank Screen Message” and then typing the specified message in the pop-up box, as shown in the screenshot below.
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To show the teachers screen to all students click the “Demonstrate” tab at the very top left of the program window.
Click “Show Teacher’s Screen” (full or windowed) and the teaching station display will be projected onto all of the workstations in the lab.
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